AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot are overwhelming websites with aggressive traffic spikes—one user reported 30TB of bandwidth consumed in a month. These bots strain shared hosting environments, causing slowdowns that hurt SEO and user experience. Unlike traditional search crawlers, AI bots request large batches of pages in short bursts without following bandwidth-saving guidelines. Dedicated servers provide essential control through rate limiting, IP filtering, and custom caching, protecting your site’s performance against this growing trend.
No, you’re not imagining things.
If you’ve recently checked your server logs or analytics dashboard and spotted strange user agents like GPTBot or ClaudeBot, you’re seeing the impact of a new wave of visitors: AI and LLM crawlers.
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